johnschwenkler.wordpress.com - 10/20/2008
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Via Will Wilkinson, I see that Brink Lindsey has helpfully taken apart Jacob Weisberg’s ridiculous argument series of almost entirely unargued-for statements claiming that the financial crisis disproves libertarianism, thus saving me the trouble of having to do the same:
As every good hack ...
tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com - 10/28/2008
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tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com —
How long until there's a drug that makes
it easy for anyone to be thin? My question...
is prompted by a a report in the Lancet from a team of Danish researchers who found that a new appetite-suppressing drug, tesofensine, was twice as effective as ...
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The End of Fat?
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Is Libertarianism Discredited?
Ross Douthat —
... fundamentalism" deserves the lion's share of the blame, and having brought the world to the brink of a Great Depression, libertarians should have the decency to just shut up from here on out. Now, I have my disagreements with libertarians now and then, but this strikes me as an uncommonly silly idea. (Almost as silly, one might venture, as the idea that Bristol Palin's pregnancy discredits social conservatism.) I'd direct you to Brink Lindsey, Tyler Cowen, John Schwenkler and of course Will Wilkinson for more on the broader issues, but I want ...
Feeding Libertarians
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... Feeding Libertarians [ Jonah Goldberg ] As I expected , the well-deserved beat down of Jacob Weisberg's amazingly silly epitaph of libertarianism (fast on the heals of his epitaph of social conservatism pegged to Bristol Palin's pregnancy, as Ross notes ) is picking up speed nicely. Here's Brink Lindsey doing the major body work. A quick pinch by Tyler Cowen. Ilya Somin steps on his fingers while he tries to get up. Some piling on by John Schwenkler. The always deadly Will Wilkinson runs out into the street to beat on him ...
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